| 单词 | microbe |
| 例句 | The Martians of H. G. Wells and Orson Welles, preoccupied with the suppression of Bournemouth and Jersey City, never noticed until too late that their immunological defenses were unavailing against the microbes of Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A few microbes are more sensitive to heat than our own bodies are. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The extensive publicity about Garfield's slow, agonizing death shined the light on the role of microbes in human health. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z But even bacteria do anaerobic glycolysis, which is why apples rot: lunchtime for the microbes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Insects have many natural enemies — not only microbes of many kinds but other insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Some are caused by microbes capable of maintaining themselves in animals or in the soil, with the result that the disease doesn’t die out but remains constantly available to infect people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Many American doctors, including Garfield's, still refused to accept that microbes caused infection. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z A wide variety of microbes, which would have been indetectable with conventional scoring techniques, was found in essentially every site examined. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Another bonanza was the development of world trade routes, which by Roman times effectively joined the populations of Europe, Asia, and North Africa into one giant breeding ground for microbes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Unlike Civil War surgeons who used antiseptic chemicals after a wound became infected, Lister's goal was to kill microbes in wounds before they caused an infection. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z From the microbes’ point of view, however, they’re just a useful device to enlist a host’s help in inoculating microbes into a body cavity of a new host. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z To look for life on Mars, we must look for microbes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The carbolic acid solution was too weak to kill bacteria, and the procedure only introduced more microbes. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Some microbes don’t wait for the old host to die and get eaten, but instead hitchhike in the saliva of an insect that bites the old host and flies off to find a new host. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As a rule, viruses, microbes, and parasites do not kill the majority of their victims—the pest that wipes out its host species has a bleak evolutionary future. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In their home ecosystems these species have, like all living things, a full complement of parasites, microbes, viruses, and insect predators to shorten and immiserate their lives. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z That’s the principle of vaccination: to stimulate our antibody production without our having to go through the actual experience of the disease, by inoculating us with a dead or weakened strain of microbe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “That’s primordial ooze! It’s brimming with microbes! Back in the Age of Mortality, this single basin could have wiped out entire populations. It was called ‘disease.’” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Naturally, we’re disposed to think about diseases just from our own point of view: what can we do to save ourselves and to kill the microbes? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps there are many other planets that today have abundant microbes but no big beasts and vegetables. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z ATP is the universal currency of energy — found in all organisms from microbes to man. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z We live in a world where the microbes are always trying to get at us, to tear us cell from cell, and we only stay alive and whole through diligence and fear. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Certainly I’m no mad exterminator bent on killing devil microbes; on the contrary, I admire them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It has been estimated that we probably have real knowledge of only a small proportion of the microbes of the earth, because most of them cannot be cultivated alone. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, these diseases tend to be restricted to humans; the microbes causing them tend not to live in the soil or in other animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Hence let’s begin by temporarily setting aside our human bias and considering disease from the microbes’ point of view. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z White blood cells and other cells of ours actively seek out and kill foreign microbes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, typhus microbes discovered that human body lice offered a much more efficient method of traveling directly between humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The dirtiest of all tricks for passive carriage is perpetrated by microbes that pass from a woman to her fetus and thereby infect babies already at birth. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Spaniards’ microbes spread to the interior in advance of the Spaniards themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The husband was a small, timid man, sick with pneumonia caused by an unidentified microbe, and with only limited command of the English language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z With it he discovered a universe in a drop of water: the microbes, which he described as “animalcules” and thought “cute.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When microbes arrived in the Western Hemisphere, he argued, they must have swept from the coastlines first visited by Europeans to inland areas populated by Indians who had never seen a white person. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Given our proximity to the animals we love, we must be getting constantly bombarded by their microbes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Eurasia harbored many domestic animal species and hence developed many such microbes, while the Americas had very few of each. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Numerous as were the Native American victims of the murderous Spanish conquistadores, they were far outnumbered by the victims of murderous Spanish microbes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It might be a microbe, a strand of lost nucleic acid, a molecule of enzyme, or a nameless hairless little being with sharp gray eyes. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z For the microbes include not only disease organisms but those that destroy waste matter, make soils fertile, and enter into countless biological processes like fermentation and nitrification. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z That seems especially puzzling and self-defeating, since a microbe that kills its host kills itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We’ll then consider how the ancestors of microbes now confined to us transferred themselves from their original animal hosts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This chapter will begin by considering what a “disease” is, and why some microbes have evolved so as to “make us sick,” whereas most other species of living things don’t make us sick. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That number depends on how long each victim remains capable of infecting new victims, and how efficiently the microbe is transferred from one victim to the next. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z After the end of his expedition, it was a long time before Europeans again reached the Mississippi Valley, but Eurasian microbes were now established in North America and kept spreading. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At higher frequencies, beyond the violet, is a part of the spectrum called the ultraviolet: a perfectly real kind of light, carrying death to the microbes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z One transformation involves a change of intermediate vector: when a microbe relying on some arthropod vector for transmission switches to a new host, the microbe may be forced to find a new arthropod as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If the rise of farming was thus a bonanza for our microbes, the rise of cities was a greater one, as still more densely packed human populations festered under even worse sanitation conditions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The rapid spread of microbes, and the rapid course of symptoms, mean that everybody in a local human population is quickly infected and soon thereafter is either dead or else recovered and immune. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The focus that day was on the preservation of the natural landscape and of the intricate web of life whose interwoven strands lead from microbes to man. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Still other soil microbes perform various oxidations and reductions by which minerals such as iron, manganese, and sulfur are transformed and made available to plants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In that new environment, a microbe must evolve new ways to live and to propagate itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z County officials say they eliminated the springs out of concern that bathers might become gravely ill from virulent microbes thought to flourish in the thermal pools. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Griffith approached the problem by focusing on the microbe: Why was pneumococcus so fatal to animals? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Alas, some clever microbes don’t just cave in to our immune defenses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But what is the optimum way, given severe constraints on size, cost and power requirements, to search for microbes on Mars? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Some microbes froze to death after the first night and were never heard from again. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Enormous efforts were made to build the Viking microbiology experiments and test them with a variety of microbes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps there is an exotic inorganic chemistry in the Martian soil that is able by itself, in the absence of Martian microbes, to oxidize foodstuffs. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z All the other experiments made specific assumptions about gases that would be given off or taken in by the microbes, assumptions that were little more than guesses. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The water in my glass has to be swimming with microbes, judging by the children’s skinny limbs and swollen bellies, signs of amoebic infections. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But microbes evolved to feed on the nutrients within our own bodies, and they don’t have wings to let them reach a new victim’s body once the original victim is dead or resistant. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z After all, microbes are as much a product of natural selection as we are. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Inspired by the new idea of germ theory, Wells imagined microbes killing off his Martians. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Pathogenicity may be something of a disadvantage for most microbes, carrying lethal risks more frightening to them than to us. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Vishniac believed that the experimental techniques previously used to deduce no indigenous microbes in Antarctica were flawed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But farmers are sedentary and live amid their own sewage, thus providing microbes with a short path from one person’s body into another’s drinking water. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If terrestrial microbes can survive the Martian environment, how much better Martian microbes, if they exist, must do on Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z All those microbes are still at an early stage in their evolution into specialized human pathogens. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I lie on the cold cement floor and let all the contaminated dust and microbes and toxic black mold spores do with me what they will. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The specific antibodies that we gradually build up against a particular microbe infecting us make us less likely to get reinfected once we become cured. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In several instructive cases doctors or veterinarians have actually been able to observe microbes evolving those new ways. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Evidence has recently been emerging from molecular studies of the disease-causing microbes themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And this is true not only of the microbes of two billion years ago. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For a microbe, spread may be defined mathematically as the number of new victims infected per each original patient. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z First, when Martian soil was mixed with a sterile organic soup from Earth, something in the soil chemically broke down the soup—almost as if there were respiring microbes metabolizing a food package from Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps something had caught his eye, a likely habitat for microbes, say, or a patch of green where none should be. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Europeans may not have known about microbes, but they thoroughly understood infectious disease. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In addition, hunter-gatherers frequently shift camp and leave behind their own piles of feces with accumulated microbes and worm larvae. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This was to prevent microbes from one chimp infecting another—or from infecting a human. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z But the advantage of the Wolf Trap was that it laid no requirements on what the Martian microbes must do with their food. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In short, diseases represent evolution in progress, and microbes adapt by natural selection to new hosts and vectors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In 1882, Robert Koch of Germany identified the microbe that caused the dreaded disease tuberculosis. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Thus, food production and thousands of years of societal evolution following its adoption were as essential for the evolution of writing as for the evolution of microbes causing human epidemic diseases. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If we wish on Earth to examine samples of Martian soil for microbes, we must, of course, not sterilize the samples beforehand. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We know that at least some terrestrial microbes can survive on Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Second, when gases from Earth were introduced into the Martian soil sample, the gases became chemically combined with the soil—almost as if there were photosynthesizing microbes, generating organic matter from atmospheric gases. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For many of the microbes responsible for our unique diseases, molecular biologists can now identify the microbe’s closest relatives. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z From what microbes could they conceivably have evolved? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The importance of lethal microbes in human history is well illustrated by Europeans’ conquest and depopulation of the New World. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Since the disease may take a very long time to kill its victim, the victim remains alive as a reservoir of microbes to infect other members of the tribelet. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I use the hottest water to rinse away all the food and microbes. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z When humans and domesticated animals share quarters, they are constantly exposed to each other’s microbes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In an epidemic those people with genes for resistance to that particular microbe are more likely to survive than are people lacking such genes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In other experiments, when small quantities of liquid water were present, the microbes actually grew. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the 1860s, doctors hadn't yet learned that microbes cause disease. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Writing marched together with weapons, microbes, and centralized political organization as a modern agent of conquest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Until World War II, more victims of war died of war-borne microbes than of battle wounds. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z No one understood that microbes in body waste contaminated drinking water and caused dysentery and typhoid fever. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z But in part two, we learn that Phil has his own bizarre microbe philosophies. Duck Dynasty Premiere Recap: In Which They Tackle Tough Topics Like Emojis and Air Bud 2014-01-16T16:06:19Z The researchers found that the babies fell broadly into one of three groups, based on the mix of microbes living in their gut. Altering gut microbes of babies could prevent asthma and allergies 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Trillions of these microorganisms — also called microbes — live on our skin and inside our bodies, but they’re too tiny to see with the naked eye. Tiny bacteria impact our health in big ways 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z And one of the microbes found in the latest study’s healthy controls was already known to be anti-inflammatory and tends to be reduced or missing in patients whose condition recurs after surgery. Is a treatment for Crohn’s disease on the horizon? 2014-03-23T19:00:00Z Looking up, you are forced to realize a different view of who and what we are, tiny microbes in a vast sea of darkness lit by specs of light coming from millions of miles away. Along the Rio Grande, a Hot Spring and a Warm Welcome 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z Millipedes feed on plant debris and microbes; centipedes eat other arthropods. The zoo beneath our feet: We’re only beginning to understand soil’s hidden world 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Our gut microbes are also responsible for gas production when we eat new foods as those microbes adapt to this new nutrient source in their environment. 5 things you can do to make your microbiome healthier 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z I should know better because I'm a microbiologist and I know that the microbes that I might be worried about making me sick have no smell. The sniff test is not reliable for food safety – here’s why 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z As scientists, we’ve studied microbes that cause diseases for many years, and we understand how important it is for children to be exposed to a diverse array of bacteria. Five Dirty Habits to Encourage in Your Kid 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z For some years now, researchers have been working on a soil microbe called Mycobacterium vaccae, which triggers mouse brains to produce serotonin and thereby acts as an antidepressant. The healing powers of the earth 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Other studies have also shown that gut microbes are implicated in sleep processes, which may explain this link. Fermented foods and fiber may lower stress levels: study 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z These foods have high nutritional value and contain microbes that increase the immune system's ability to fight cancer and lower overall inflammation. How microbes in food can impact your body’s defenses against cancer 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Yet this seeming villain of a microbe also confers a range of different benefits to its various hosts, protecting them from other pathogens or providing vital nutrients missing from their diets. With a little help from my friends 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Chuck E. Cheese parent company files for bankruptcy The covid virus and all of its microbe friends face a harder road: Chuck E. Cheese has helped a lot, Bankrupt: Kids will share less snot. Style Invitational Week 1393: Another go at anagrams (O groan at a rash magnet?) 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z But that may solve a problem posed to other would-be biofuels produced in microbes; algal oils have proved difficult to extract cheaply and effectively from inside the algae themselves, among other challenges. Gut microbe makes diesel biofuel 2013-04-25T15:14:00Z “We found almost none of those microbes in the chimpanzee nests, which was a little surprising,” she said. How our beds are dirtier than chimpanzee nests 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z More importantly, loam is not loam unless it contains organic matter as well, from decaying root fiber, microbes, worm castings and all the other ingredients found in a living soil. How to create a living soil 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z Food spills and open containers provide an opportunity for microbes to get to work. Here’s why your freezer smells bad — and what you can do about it 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z But few consider the well being of the microbes that live inside the human gut — the microbiome — which are vital to an individual’s good health. 5 things you can do to make your microbiome healthier 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z For example, the French brand Gallinée uses lactobacillus bacteria “deactivated by heat”, while LaFlore, a US brand soon to launch in the UK, suspends microbes in a “gel matrix”. ‘I don’t smell!’ Meet the people who have stopped washing 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z In short, even though we think freezers keep things "fresh", microbes can still proliferate in there. Here’s why your freezer smells bad — and what you can do about it 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z She says it ensures that the microbes she values, the ones she wants in the vinegars, are thriving nearby. Exploring the Sweet Subtleties of Vinegar 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z Too many microbes looking for ethanol, as a result you are producing acetobacter not vinegar. Making (Bad) Vinegar at Home: A Critic’s Confession 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z First, as microbes start to grow, several pungent chemicals are produced. Here’s why your freezer smells bad — and what you can do about it 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z According to the hygiene hypothesis, lack of early exposure to microbes and parasites may prevent the immune system developing properly. Living with a dog cuts child's risk of asthma by 15%, study shows 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z But do microbes really account for the entire difference? Do You Have Nafas, the Elusive Gift That Makes Food Taste Better? 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z After examining thousands of molecules produced by the gut microbes, the scientists identified nicotinamide as a potentially important one. Motor neurone disease researchers find link to microbes in gut 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z All water supplies contain some microbes and pathogens. The unique technologies than help to prevent widespread water scarcity 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Some microbes can protect against cancer by helping maintain a healthy environment in the gut, reducing inflammation and DNA damage and even by directly limiting tumor growth. How microbes in food can impact your body’s defenses against cancer 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z But in the last few years, the stuffed germs have spread like the common cold microbe that remains its flagship and biggest seller. Conn. company's stuffed germ toys catching on 2010-12-18T16:09:14Z The microbes, which Oliver describes as whimsy rooted firmly in science, harken to his college days as an editor at the offbeat Harvard Lampoon humor magazine. Conn. company's stuffed germ toys catching on 2010-12-18T16:09:14Z “The microbes on our hands and in our environment lead to variations in the flavor of our dishes,” he said. Do You Have Nafas, the Elusive Gift That Makes Food Taste Better? 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Not only do our microbes form protective barriers, they also programme our immune systems. How to boost your immune system to avoid colds and coronavirus 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z They spotted 11 strains of microbes that were either more or less common in the ALS-prone animals as the disease progressed and physical symptoms took hold. Motor neurone disease researchers find link to microbes in gut 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z There are microbes that feed off sebum, which helps sustain healthy oil levels. This Is Your Skin on Stress 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z In fact, deaths from listeria infections are often associated with the more invasive forms of the disease in which the microbes have breached the intestinal barriers and moved to other body parts. What is listeria? A microbiologist explains 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z It was there, in the 1870s, that the scientist Louis Pasteur transformed perceptions of illness by discovering that many serious diseases were caused by microscopic organisms called microbes, bacteria, or germs. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z What many people don’t realize is that humans owe their delicious, chewy loaves to innumerable itty-bitty microbes. Ever wondered about the science behind bread? 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z In addition to differing in behavior, these types of mice also differ in the composition of their gut microbes. Gut check: Microbes in our stomachs may be making us miserable 2014-04-28T00:00:00Z Deadly microbes that took months or years to travel across Europe in an earlier era now scurry around the planet in an afternoon. Review | Jim Shepard’s ‘Phase Six’ makes covid look like a dress rehearsal 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z But the questions for any property filled with living, growing, pulsating plants, microbes, insects, remains the same. Historic Northwest gardens are always changing, yet they endure 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Fifty years after Michael Crichton published “The Andromeda Strain,” that deadly microbe has mutated again. Review | Michael Crichton’s classic thriller ‘The Andromeda Strain’ gets a deadly sequel 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Polyphenols in nuts, seeds, coffee, dark chocolate, red wine, olive oil and berries provide energy for microbes, while pre and probiotics that boost or contain microbes include yoghurt, sauerkraut, kimchi and miso. Is it possible to be healthy and obese? 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z The compost brings the beneficial microbes, the Bloom the nutrients. Would you use human waste in your garden? 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z The CDC indicates that six microbes of lead in every deciliter of blood is enough to give a person cognitive damage for the rest of their life. "It's not a enough to indict individuals; we have to indict systems": Author Wes Moore on racism 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z A clue is that 7 percent of ancient DNA samples from Europe and the steppes contain DNA of the plague microbe that caused medieval Europe’s Black Death. A Brand-New Version of Our Origin Story 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z It’s very rich in earth minerals and beneficial microbes. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Great green gobs of nutritional advice 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z “There’s far fewer microbes there compared to the gut and also a lot more exposure to our food. It also happens to be the place where most of our immune cells are.” Is kombucha good for you? 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Mitochondria, the power-generating structures in plant and animal cells, perhaps best illustrate the dual nature of the relationship between microbes and their hosts. With a little help from my friends 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z The new study is the latest to explore the potential of transplanting microbes from one human to another. Vaginal fluid transplants could cure bacterial vaginosis 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Quammen’s meaty, sprawling book chronicles his globe-trotting scientific adventures and warns against animal microbes spilling over into people. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z Biostimulants promote plant growth by stimulating biological or chemical processes in plants or microbes associated with roots. Climate change threatens food but microscopic algae offer answers 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z A 2016 BBC report noted that "Factors may include pollution, dietary changes and less exposure to microbes, which change how our immune systems respond." Why are adult food allergies are on the rise? 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z You just need to be ready to look after your little jar of flour and microbes. Ever wondered about the science behind bread? 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z The microbe is nothing, the terrain is everything. The Deadliness of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak Was Not Inevitable 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z Compost enriches your soil with beneficial microbes, while mulch helps retain moisture and suppresses weeds. So, you’ve built a vegetable garden — here’s how to take care of it 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z Foreign microbes, in and on our body, outnumber our own cells. The power of Purell compels you! 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z This natural behavior is likely designed to encounter more microbes and subsequently train their immune system to react to it accordingly. Five Dirty Habits to Encourage in Your Kid 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Beneath the tundra’s permafrost, far more ancient microbes and viruses wait. The stories to read to be the smartest person at the Thanksgiving table 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z Most pesticides and herbicides are broken down by heat and microbes during the compositing process and the pesticide residue in the final compost is negligible. Your garden hight not be as organic as you think — here’s why 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z The worms incorporate them into the soil, where they also sustain the beneficial microbes that inhabit the underworld and feed our plants in turn. Gardeners: November is a vital time for a successful spring bloom 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Monster Island This new episode ventures to Mona Island, where an inva-sive colony of wild boars has been infected with the deadly and highly contagious Brucellosis microbe. Thursday's TV Highlights: 'Wayward Pines' on Fox 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z For any given patient, it is difficult to pinpoint which particular microbe is causing the problem – it may even be interactions between several. 'In pain all the time': will there ever be a cure for chronic, life-changing UTIs? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z The heat is the natural byproduct of microbes at work converting raw materials into crumbly, dark, loamlike organic matter. Why you should use compost, even if you don’t have a big garden 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z It would be over a century before new genetic tools would allow scientists to dispense with trying to culture these recalcitrant microbes. With a little help from my friends 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Each spring we watch our fields turn deep, rich green — there are microbes and earthworms and other organisms regenerating the soil, providing us with a continual bounty. Get to know two Wagyu farmers (then make your new favorite steak salad) 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z One recent study found the Yanomami, one of the world’s most remote indigenous tribes living deep in the Venezuelan Amazon, hosts the most diverse constellation of microbes ever discovered in humans. Should we throw in the towel and stop showering? 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z But not all of them are human — about half of them are fungi, microbes and bacteria. The bacteria and microbes in your gut can affect your body and mental health 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z What you’re paying for in a plain soap are surfactants — a short term for “surface active agents,” or the ingredients that send harmful microbes off your skin and down the drain. Why you don’t need to splurge on a pricey hand soap 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Understanding these microbes would be critical to maintaining our health in the future. My life as a guinea pig for science 2013-07-27T23:05:16Z He is developing sensors that can help adjust the composition of the gut biome and various microbe communities within it. The bacteria and microbes in your gut can affect your body and mental health 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z These microbes promote cooperation among cells and limit the function of cheating cells by strengthening the body's cancer defenses. How microbes in food can impact your body’s defenses against cancer 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z There are microbes that feed off dead skin cells — the original exfoliators! This Is Your Skin on Stress 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z While the mucus itself helps protect fish from harmful bacteria, fungi and viruses, the team are interested in the collection of microbes it is home to – the so-called microbiome – and the substances it produces. New antibiotics could be developed using fish slime, scientists say 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z What if the trillions of microbes sitting in our small intestines – known collectively as the microbiome or microbiota – were actually affecting our mood, digestion, overall health and ability to get a full eight hours’ shut-eye? Is your gut keeping you awake at night? 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z In 2004, seismic movement released the first of several Discharge Clouds — eruptions of caustic gas and newly formed microbes that cause frightening illnesses and birth defects. ‘Tigerman,’ by Nick Harkaway There was also a lot of talk of microbes throughout the two episodes. Duck Dynasty Premiere Recap: In Which They Tackle Tough Topics Like Emojis and Air Bud 2014-01-16T16:06:19Z On the line, “I am bringing animals, animal and plant products, microbes, biological products, human tissues, blood and blood products,” I checked the box “no”. My career as an international blood smuggler 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z What kinds of foods do our microbes like? Tiny bacteria impact our health in big ways 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z It’s got plenty in it - algae, microbes, minerals. Raw water: the unsterilised health craze that could give you diarrhoea 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z “We’re meant to be inoculating each other all the time as humans,” said Karen Guillemin, a University of Oregon biologist who studies microbes. Tiny bacteria impact our health in big ways 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z There are microbes that offer protection from pollution, sunlight and invading pathogens. This Is Your Skin on Stress 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z When you eat fruits and vegetables, you’re giving your microbes what they need to stay strong. Tiny bacteria impact our health in big ways 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z On average, men are affected more often and more severely by infectious diseases like viruses, bacteria, and other pathogenic microbes, and their immune systems respond less effectively to vaccines. Why flu season hits men harder than women 2014-01-28T12:45:00Z For Yi, 50, the germs and microbes that pass between us are key to understanding how humans respond to one another. The Artistic Aromas of Anicka Yi 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z Some gardeners turn to compost tea to build soil microbes. The zoo beneath our feet: We’re only beginning to understand soil’s hidden world 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z As the water passes through the showerhead, these microbes lay down a kind of scaffolding known as biofilm to protect themselves from getting washed away with every ablution. A Book That Will Make You Terrified of Your Own House 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z “One main problem with antimicrobials is that they do not distinguish between good and bad microbes,” she says. Antimicrobial paint can kill bacteria on your walls. But you probably don’t need it to. 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z We seek to reverse the damage seen in people around the world, including establishing strategies for putting back the missing microbes. Why antibiotics are making us all ill 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z If children’s exposure to these microbes is limited, then their immune systems remain immature and won’t learn to tolerate harmless microbes – or react to disease-causing microorganisms. Snap, crackle and filth – let kids eat dirt 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z In two related studies, researchers discovered a microbe that can activate an immune response; in germ-free mice that were genetically predisposed to autoimmune arthritis, it was enough to cause the disease. Motherlode Blog: The Rabbit Hole of the Rare Childhood Diagnosis 2013-02-01T19:34:26Z Dark chocolate might pack a double positive punch for our health—thanks to the microbes that live in our gut. Dark chocolate may be better for you than previously thought 2014-03-26T12:30:00Z But do not imagine you are sitting in an agar plate of vicious microbes every time you belt up. How dangerous are the bugs in my dirty car? 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Beneficial microbes are typically found in fermented and plant-based diets, which include foods like vegetables, fruits, yogurt and whole grains. How microbes in food can impact your body’s defenses against cancer 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z This kind of diet may also help to protect mental health in the long run as it targets the microbes in the gut. Fermented foods and fiber may lower stress levels: study 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z As a father of four, he thought stuffed versions of microbes that cause sore throats, the flu and other common ailments could help children understand the illnesses and avoid some of them with good hygiene. Conn. company's stuffed germ toys catching on 2010-12-18T16:09:14Z Agar turned out to be the perfect habitat for microbes. Your Body Is a Wonderland 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z These foods and drinks are courtesy of the domestication of several different animals, plants and microbes. Thank fungi for cheese, wine and beer this holiday season 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z The room’s materials were “literally alive because of an invisible layer of microbes in their tiny cavities,” he said. Solving the World’s Problems at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, cancer-inducing microbes undermine cellular cooperation and increase your risk of cancer in the process. How microbes in food can impact your body’s defenses against cancer 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z There is a delicacy in the details of working in a lab full of microbes and pipettes that dances across the pages like the feet of a Cunningham dancer: pure, precise poetry. Jeremy O. Harris: Brandon Taylor ‘Subjugates Us With the Deft Hand of a Dom’ 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Transferred to oak barrels, the beer ferments for a year or longer, each barrel varying according to the microbes’ whims. American Beers With a Pungent Whiff of Place 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Raes is among a band of scientists intent on building a reference database of the microbes found in different people, in different parts of the body and in different places in the world. My life as a guinea pig for science 2013-07-27T23:05:16Z One particular role the microbes in our gut play is supporting immune function. Colds, flu and COVID: How diet and lifestyle can boost your immune system 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z Yes, the head of a German sewage plant has introduced piped Mozartian music to stimulate the activity of microbes that break down waste. Believe it or not: News of the weird from the year in classical music 2010-12-22T21:46:07Z “The people, the landscape, the cows, the microbes: They all come together.” The key fact Americans are finally starting to understand about cheese 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z The FDA considers some products "potentially hazardous foods" if they have characteristics that allow microbes to flourish, like moisture and an abundance of nutrients that feed microbes. Food expiration dates don’t have much science behind them 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z High-fiber foods are prebiotic in the sense that they provide resources that help beneficial microbes thrive and subsequently provide benefits for their hosts. How microbes in food can impact your body’s defenses against cancer 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z My anxiety level spiked over any possible exposure to malicious microbes. Oh my god, I just touched that door handle. Thanks for nothing, Purell! 2013-03-04T17:18:00Z Monocropping saps nutrients from soil and decreases the beneficial microbes that live in it, leading to poorer plant growth and increased susceptibility to plant infections and diseases. The connection between soil microbiomes and gut microbiomes 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Recent mouse studies have even identified specific microbes linked to sugar binges after antibiotic treatment. Why do I crave sugar and carbs when I’m sick? 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z It's certainly true that some microbes create odors when they are growing. The sniff test is not reliable for food safety – here’s why 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z The surface of Mars was once very watery, and it seems likely that microbes — tiny organisms such as bacteria — were common and are preserved as fossils. Tired of life on Earth? Maybe you can be one of the first humans to go to Mars. 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z The psychobiotic diet only caused subtle changes in the composition and function of microbes in the gut. Fermented foods and fiber may lower stress levels: study 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z The lime is gone, instead processed sludge is sent to silo-like pressure cookers, which destroy bacteria, and is then piped to four colossal concrete tanks where microbes are added to digest the material. Would you use human waste in your garden? 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z The finding suggested that somehow, microbes in the animals’ guts were involved in how quickly the disease progressed. Motor neurone disease researchers find link to microbes in gut 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z But they didn’t know which microbes lived where in healthy people, and what they actually do. 10,000 germ species per human 2012-06-13T17:20:00Z Testing for hygiene, recruits first massaged some raw chicken, so that scientists could see how many microbes remained on their hands after they were washed and dried. Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Once Louis Pasteur discovered that microbes could both make us sick and make beer, he came to see some species as dangerous but others as beneficial. New Books Take You Through the Microscope to the World of Pathogens 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Antiquities experts are appealing to the university and the culture ministry for funding and equipment to better fend off the microbes eating into the mummies' flesh. Ancient mummies rot as Yemen war vexes even the dead 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z “I think it’s very plausible that your microbes are influencing your immune system responses,” Guillemin said. Tiny bacteria impact our health in big ways 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z The fair will invite young visitors to swab their hands for microbes, learn how to use petri dishes to culture what is growing on their skin and observe similar bacteria under a microscope. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The tightly interlocked lines in Spencer Dormitzer’s pulsating drawings, packed within circles on vast expanses of white paper, also suggest cells and microbes. Review | In the galleries: Crossing the line between aesthetics and science 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z It's also worth noting that many microbes will survive freezing and start growing again once conditions are favorable — for example, if you remove the food, partially thaw it and return it to the freezer. Here’s why your freezer smells bad — and what you can do about it 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z But their long talks about the nature of humanity and microbes grow flavorless after a while. In ‘Phase Six,’ Two Women Get to Work Saving the World From a Pandemic 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z Zero-calorie sweeteners may affect our gut microbes, and therefore blood sugar levels, according to a new study published on Wednesday in the journal Nature. Zero-calorie sweeteners may be affecting our guts in a surprising way 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Second place receives, in the spirit of Why?? creations, a cute plush Streptococcus pyogenes microbe, a.k.a. Style Invitational Week 1230: What in creation? Give us some divine plans. 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Both also point to growing evidence that our gut microbiome - the range and quantity of microbes in our guts - impacts the immune system. The secrets of people who never get sick 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Their work is an outgrowth of the Human Microbiome Project, a National Institutes of Health initiative to catalog all the microbes in our system. Motherlode Blog: The Rabbit Hole of the Rare Childhood Diagnosis 2013-02-01T19:34:26Z The microbes in the intestinal tract alone outnumber the stars in the Milky Way. Review: ‘The Secret World Inside You’ Explores the Microbial Human 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z From there, the microbes get to work, turning the alcohol into vinegar. Exploring the Sweet Subtleties of Vinegar 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z Microbes are thought to help train our immune system because when it encounters a harmless microbe, the immune system learns to ignore or tolerate it. Snap, crackle and filth – let kids eat dirt 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z A microbe on the map, a Mid-Atlantic territory of onlys, we-don’t-have-thats and so much poultry. Lovely, little Delaware — long famous for corporations, chickens and credit cards — is ready for its big moment 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z Ingested nanoscale particles may be able to interfere with cells – even beneficial gut microbes – in ways that larger particles don’t. There are microscopic needles in your baby’s formula. Just how worried should you be? 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z For example, we now know that a spoonful of agricultural soil contains 30,000 taxonomic varieties of microbes. The connection between soil microbiomes and gut microbiomes 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z But as the first study to link gut microbes – collectively known as the microbiome – to the neurodegenerative illness, the work raises the possibility of new treatments for the condition. Motor neurone disease researchers find link to microbes in gut 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z As a result, some plants, animals, microbes and fungi win, and some lose. We Aren’t Destroying the Earth 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z It’s also about what goes on in the rhizosphere, where plant roots interact with minerals, enzymes, immeasurably diverse microbes and other aspects of soil life. Will hydroponics water down the meaning of organic? 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z When you and a dominant group of microbes aren’t on the same page, they will try to manipulate your eating behavior for their benefit. Perspective | Why you’re still hungry: 6 obstacles to healthy eating 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z The story follows a family abducted by a group of people infected with an alien microbe that radically alters humans and pushes them to reproduce and spread their infection. Review | Coronavirus feels like something out of a sci-fi novel. Here’s how writers have imagined similar scenarios. 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z In the presence of oxygen, microbes break down food and garden organics without producing methane. Here’s how wastewater facilities could tackle food waste, generate energy and slash emissions 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Once popular mostly as "geek chic" among medical workers and niche groups, the stuffed microbe toys have spawned Facebook fan sites and a subculture of collectors who eagerly await each new release. Conn. company's stuffed germ toys catching on 2010-12-18T16:09:14Z When the mice reached adulthood, they colonized some of the Balb/c germ-free mice with normal Balb/c mouse gut microbes and they colonized another group with typical NIH Swiss mouse gut microbes. Gut check: Microbes in our stomachs may be making us miserable 2014-04-28T00:00:00Z After treatment to remove solids and sterilize microbes, the water remains high in nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and micronutrients. Is farming with reclaimed water the solution to a drier future? 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Exactly how the E. coli microbes expel the diesel fuel molecules is unknown at this point. Gut microbe makes diesel biofuel 2013-04-25T15:14:00Z Simply put, a microbiome is a community of microbes — eukaryotes, archaea, fungi, viruses, bacteria — that act together both with and within a specific environment. The connection between soil microbiomes and gut microbiomes 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z While cash spends all that time wandering from, say, a cocaine-sniffer’s nose to a waiter’s hands to someone’s back pocket, it is going to meet microbes. Dirty dollars: The public health case for a cashless society 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Moreover, this microbe does not infect humans; it infects stars in outer space. "I don't want to be L. Ron Hubbard": Andy Weir on writing escapism & new book "Project Hail Mary" 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z What: Leaves converted to humus by time and microbes. Americans love mulch — and many of us are misusing it 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Seeing as our bodies contain more cells belonging to microbes, such as bacteria and yeasts, than human ones, let’s start with the microbiome. How to boost your immune system to avoid colds and coronavirus 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z Even the study’s identical twins share only 37% of their gut microbes. Eat more avocado! What I learned from the study that will change how we eat 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z Regardless, industrial-scale fuel production from microbes remains a much tougher proposition than making specialty oils or medicines, given the low cost and high volumes required to compete with the fuels made from fossil sources. Gut microbe makes diesel biofuel 2013-04-25T15:14:00Z You point out that our feelings about microbes are an expression of our attitude toward the natural world. Michael Pollan: Bad food is costing America its economic health 2013-12-08T19:00:00Z That year, Bercik was among a team that published a study with fascinating findings showing how gut microbes impact behavior in mice. Gut check: Microbes in our stomachs may be making us miserable 2014-04-28T00:00:00Z While water is regularly tested at recreational sites for potential pathogens, wild-harvested foods are commonly overlooked as a source of exposure to antibiotic-resistant microbes. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in New Zealand's wild cockles and watercress puts people at risk 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z To get at the most interesting and largest number of microbes, those found in the gut, he needs faeces. My life as a guinea pig for science 2013-07-27T23:05:16Z If some bacteria in the gut activate immune cells, and others get them to settle down, an imbalance of these microbes could contribute to the sustained inflammation that characterizes autoimmune arthritis. Motherlode Blog: The Rabbit Hole of the Rare Childhood Diagnosis 2013-02-01T19:34:26Z Meat grown from human cells, with the help of engineered microbes taken from expired blood cells, is elegantly arrayed on a plate, ready for a photo shoot. Design Shows Take On the Future. And It’s Not Pretty. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Experts warn that we’re entering a “post-antibiotic era” full of microbes that eat our puny drugs for breakfast while fomenting new infections that are as untreatable as infections were centuries ago. Before You Fill That Prescription, You May Want to Read These Books 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z But when they colonized the Balb/c mice with NIH Swiss microbes, “they became more daring, their exploratory behavior increased. And the opposite happened with the other.” Gut check: Microbes in our stomachs may be making us miserable 2014-04-28T00:00:00Z Looking back on photos taken during this disrupted year, as we slide into a new one, you will not see the tiny microbe that changed everything. Photography From the Year Time Stopped 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z Thoroughly fermented, they didn’t contain enough residual sugar to attract invading microbes that might befoul the beer. The surprise about saisons Not only does research suggest that antimicrobial products are ineffective at reducing microbes on the product, but several studies also suggest they may be causing an increase in antibiotic resistance. FDA bans chemicals linked to antibiotic resistance from soap 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z After washing, you can sanitize any microbes remaining using boiling water or a disinfectant such as bleach, diluted as per the manufacturer's instructions. Dirty tea towels are breeding grounds for harmful bacteria — here’s how to clean them properly 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z The genetic material for the microorganisms — including bacteria, fungi and other microbes — that reside on or in our bodies is called the human microbiome. Tiny bacteria impact our health in big ways 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z The way humans’ relationship with their microbes is affected by gravity is true for squids, too, and Foster is using squids to better understand what is going on with humans, according to McFall-Ngai. NASA sends squid from Hawaii into space for research 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z “Cooking kills most of these, so raw fruit and veg are particularly important sources of gut microbes.” 100m bacteria a day keep the doctor away, apple research suggests 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z Michele Banks filled petri dishes with tiny paintings that represent the microbes newly evident in polar regions. Galleries: ‘Is It Propaganda? Or Is It Political Art?’ Specifically, the microbes that live in and on the human body, making up our “microbiome.” Gut check: Microbes in our stomachs may be making us miserable 2014-04-28T00:00:00Z Internal toxins include natural byproducts created by the body during metabolism, such as lactic acid, urea and waste from the gut microbes. A dietitian unpacks the science behind the detox diet fad 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Some of these microbes are important in maintaining a healthy gut environment, or microbiome, says Prof Gabriele Berg from Graz University of Technology, Austria, one of the authors of the research. 100m bacteria a day keep the doctor away, apple research suggests 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z It’s out of fashion to say these days, when we spend our time scrutinizing the interactions of eukaryotic microbes, but it’s true, nevertheless. The Internet isn’t killing religion — religion is 2014-04-23T12:00:00Z Farmer begins the final section of “Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds” with a quote apparently uttered by Louis Pasteur on his deathbed: “Le microbe n’est rien, le terrain est tout.” The Deadliness of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak Was Not Inevitable 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z Research suggests that it’s essential for young children to develop a healthy “microbiome,” or personal microbe ecosystem. How gardening can help build healthier, happier kids 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Not a commercial one — a little soil or existing compost will help to add desired microbes. How to compost, and why it’s a good idea Many also contain large amounts of preservatives, meaning that customers are sometimes buying expensive milk or cabbage that doesn’t contain any live microbes. Is kombucha good for you? 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z "Soil provides a massive diversity of microbes, nutrients, and bacteria that plants are dependent on," explains Dawson. How to get your soil ready for gardening season 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z Hesse, who was married to a German scientist, suggested growing microbes in agar, which her grandmother used in pudding recipes. Your Body Is a Wonderland 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Moreover, resident gut microbes are strong competitors for the limited amount of space and nutrients in our intestines. What is listeria? A microbiologist explains 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z That raises the possibility of manipulating the mix of gut microbes early in development to reduce the risk. Altering gut microbes of babies could prevent asthma and allergies 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Oliver says the toys are true to the microbes they represent except, of course, for their eyes and enhanced colors. Conn. company's stuffed germ toys catching on 2010-12-18T16:09:14Z An article referring to the study says: A parasitic microbe commonly found in cats might have helped shape entire human cultures by manipulating the personalities of infected individuals, according to a new study. My cat really is trying to kill me – and you 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z For example, if you eat a lot of sugary foods, “sugar-loving” microbes will thrive, whereas microbes that don’t do so well on sugar may weaken or die. Perspective | Why you’re still hungry: 6 obstacles to healthy eating 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z Everyone eats — intentionally or unintentionally — millions to billions of live microbes every day. What is listeria? A microbiologist explains 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z For millions of years, children grew up in constant exposure to the microbes around them. Five Dirty Habits to Encourage in Your Kid 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Other microbes can promote cancer by inducing mutations in healthy cells that make it more likely for cellular cheaters to emerge and outcompete cooperative cells. How microbes in food can impact your body’s defenses against cancer 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Now, however, there is evidence that while a small number of microbes are responsible for infections, others play a vital part in keeping us healthy. Snap, crackle and filth – let kids eat dirt 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z For multiple reasons, we are losing our ancient microbes. Why antibiotics are making us all ill 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z In return for moisture, warmth and nutrition, the microbes help to digest food, train the immune system, and keep metabolism in check. Autism symptoms replicated in mice after faecal transplants 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z But for those interested in integrating a variety of microbes into their diet, Dr. Emeran Mayer, author of “The Mind-Gut Connection,” recommends doing so naturally. Are There Benefits to Drinking Kombucha? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z And as with wine, brewers influenced by the style often speak of terroir: the roles of geography and climate, which affect the balance and activity of microbes, yielding beers that reflect where they’re made. American Beers With a Pungent Whiff of Place 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z The microbes in the anaerobic digester produce methane, which is then stored and used to power a streetlamp that comes on at dusk. Dog poop bags are a menace. But what's the green alternative? 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z That’s essential, because the microbes that do the job are aerobic — they need air. Perspective | For a better compost pile, balance these two types of ingredients 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z The ensuing microbe-rich brew is then sprayed as a soil tonic to build populations of beneficial microbes, reducing the need for fertilizers. How to nurture your small piece of the Earth, without harming the rest of it 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Indeed I have been geekily making an effort to feed my microbes in recent years, even fermenting my own sauerkraut, so this is encouraging news. Eat more avocado! What I learned from the study that will change how we eat 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z The toys depict each microbe at a million times its actual size or larger, and each comes with an often breezy but informative information card about their origins and avoiding illnesses they spread. Conn. company's stuffed germ toys catching on 2010-12-18T16:09:14Z In some cases, the microbe remains benign in the new host as it was in the old one. ‘Ebola,’ a History by David Quammen 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Each of us hosts a similarly diverse ecology of microbes that, over eons, co-evolved with our species. Why antibiotics are making us all ill 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z But it is possible to detect when food is spoiled — another action of microbes, as they eat away at food that has been left for too long or has been in the wrong storage conditions. The sniff test is not reliable for food safety – here’s why 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z Most of these microbes are harmless, but we would become quickly unhealthy or ill without many others, which help us digest food and fight off infections from pathogens. My life as a guinea pig for science 2013-07-27T23:05:16Z When I visit, there is no smell whatsoever in the air, just the bubbling sound of trillions of microbes, happily at their labor. Can the Chicago River be saved? 2013-02-24T15:00:00Z "At the same time, molecular techniques are giving us a much better sense of the diversity of microbes." New species top 10 2010-05-23T16:38:00Z The Grimms will bring most of their brewing in-house, aging sour ales in large oak foudres and fermenting beers with microbes captured in their backyard. Beer Makers Who Used Other Breweries Are Opening Their Own 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Gut microbes can influence your cancer risk by changing how your cells behave. How microbes in food can impact your body’s defenses against cancer 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z “Your body is teeming with bacteria, viruses and other microbes,” a small video screen announces. Review: ‘The Secret World Inside You’ Explores the Microbial Human 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z By contrast, uncontrolled food spoilage is problematic, especially when the contaminating microbes can cause disease. Here’s why your freezer smells bad — and what you can do about it 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z People also might pay close attention to the dates for more perishable foods, like cold cuts, in which microbes grow easily. Food expiration dates don’t have much science behind them 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z To explore further, the researchers analysed the gut microbes in the ALS-prone mice and compared them with normal mice. Motor neurone disease researchers find link to microbes in gut 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z The tens of trillions of bacteria and other microbes in our gut produce a number of compounds, including some that are identical or similar to appetite hormones. Perspective | Why you’re still hungry: 6 obstacles to healthy eating 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z Your gut, and the microbes that dwell in it, act as a “mini brain,” influencing, among other things, mood, appetite and food cravings. Perspective | Why you’re still hungry: 6 obstacles to healthy eating 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z Typically, the culprits are microbes — bacteria, yeasts and molds. Here’s why your freezer smells bad — and what you can do about it 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z The methods we use to detect micro-organisms today are based entirely on our own biochemistry and are therefore incapable of spotting shadow microbes, she argues. Life on Earth… but not as we know it 2013-04-13T23:05:01Z Food science Ph.D. candidate Caitlin Clark from Colorado State University focuses her research on the microbes responsible for much of chocolate's flavor. Easter bunnies, cacao beans and pollinating bugs: A basket of 6 essential reads about chocolate 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z They also found that sourdough breads tasted “weird” if made in a lab, because the microbes in a lab environment are different from ones found in a home. Do You Have Nafas, the Elusive Gift That Makes Food Taste Better? 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Marrow Fair’s earnest young adherents deal in products like Chernobyl honey and cheese made by Agrippa, who hasn’t showered in a year and lectures Lois on the symbiotic relationship between humans and microbes. Wit is baked into Robin Sloan’s delicious ‘Sourdough’ 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Though there is still much to be discovered about this “farm effect,” many immunologists are convinced microbes play an important role. Perspective | A new meaning for ‘sick as a dog’? Your pet’s health may tell you something about your own 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z When fermenting a food, we intentionally contaminate it with microbes of known characteristics or provide conditions that favor the growth of desirable microbes and subsequent production of aromatic compounds. Here’s why your freezer smells bad — and what you can do about it 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z In "Project Hail Mary" there's "astrophage," which is a microbe that is eating the sun. "I don't want to be L. Ron Hubbard": Andy Weir on writing escapism & new book "Project Hail Mary" 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z This is why the researchers are measuring hundreds of metabolites in participants’ blood after eating – such as ketones – as well as our gut microbe diversity. Eat more avocado! What I learned from the study that will change how we eat 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z Within 24 hours, the beer was transferred to four 60-gallon French oak barrels, where it was exposed to whatever microbes were lurking in the wood. Brewers do the wild thing and let yeasts have their way with beer 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z So microbes are all bad because some microbes cause disease, and we fail to realize how dependent we are on them for our health. Michael Pollan: Bad food is costing America its economic health 2013-12-08T19:00:00Z Life-threatening illnesses that can result from listeria include meningitis — inflammation around the brain and spinal cord that can occur when these microbes infect the brain — or endocarditis, infection of the heart's inner lining. What is listeria? A microbiologist explains 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z The warm, moist environment of most reservoirs is ideal for such microbes, as well as other germs and bacteria, to grow. Want better-tasting morning brew? Try cleaning your coffee maker 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z A microbe known as methylobacterium, which is known to boost strawberry-flavoured compounds, was significantly more abundant in organic apples, Berg said. 100m bacteria a day keep the doctor away, apple research suggests 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z In a still-unpublished study, Dr. Scher and his team identified a particular microbe that was common in a large cohort of rheumatoid-arthritis patients but was much less prevalent in the healthy group. Motherlode Blog: The Rabbit Hole of the Rare Childhood Diagnosis 2013-02-01T19:34:26Z Fermentation transforms food through live microbes that consume simple carbohydrates, generating antimicrobial chemicals that help preserve food. Gut microbes are the community within you that you can’t live without 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z Along with its temperature control benefits, mulching helps block out weeds, protects microbes and other soil organisms and provides nutrients to plants. 8 gardening tips from Instagram and TikTok 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z Blank canvases that he buries in soil attract microbes and mold; drowned in rivers, they collect mineral deposits and emerge as marbled abstractions. | A Dangerous Method 2014-02-27T14:00:33Z A microbe on the map, a Mid-Atlantic territory of onlys, we-don't-have-thats and so much poultry. Delaware is famous for corporations, chemicals, chickens — and now, finally, a president 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Our disruption of the natural world, “Spillover” declares, is largely to blame for unloosing terrible microbes. Books of The Times: ‘Spillover,’ by David Quammen, on How Animals Infect Humans 2012-10-02T22:11:49Z Rewind to England, hundreds of years earlier, where cooks and housemaids combined ingredients prone to spoilage with sugar, a thing that helps suffocate those thirsty microbes that make milk and unsalted butter go bad. I wanted the real story behind chess pie’s name. But no one wanted to talk about it. 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z The team found that a particular pattern of gut microbes in babies just a month old was linked to an increased risk of them developing asthma and allergic reactions as they grew up. Altering gut microbes of babies could prevent asthma and allergies 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z “The important part of washing your hands is rinsing them. That’s what takes the microbes off your hands.” Bathroom hygiene: how to ensure you never spread E coli 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z However, the microbes that are most commonly associated with foodborne illness, such as Listeria and Salmonella, are going to be near impossible to pick up with the sniff test. The sniff test is not reliable for food safety – here’s why 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z The results might lend some support to an unorthodox theory, championed by Harvard neurologist Robert Moir, that amyloid is a defence against pathogenic microbes. Does our immune system hold the key to beating Alzheimer’s disease? 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z They’re creating beers that let each type of microbe speak its unique language, and drinkers are listening. Craft Beer Fans Know Hops. But What About Yeast? 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Instead of telling themselves that bacteria and yeasts are creepy and gross, Americans are increasingly trying to culture these microbes in their kitchens by making homemade yogurt, kombucha, or sourdough bread. 5 biggest food trends of 2013 2013-12-17T12:50:00Z The microbes living in your food can affect your risk of cancer. How microbes in food can impact your body’s defenses against cancer 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z The fruit fly, you realize, may have just deposited potentially lethal microbes in your wine, so you toss it in the sink and pour a fresh glass. A fruit fly has landed in your wine – is it OK to drink? 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z But that idea is under serious reconsideration as scientists begin to understand the level to which humans and their microbes share a mutually beneficial relationship, beginning at birth. Moms facing C-sections look to vaginal 'seeding' to boost their babies' health 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z I just had no idea of how rich our engagement with microbes was, and how invisible it is to us. Michael Pollan: Bad food is costing America its economic health 2013-12-08T19:00:00Z But when a person is healthy — like the 242 U.S. adults who volunteered to be tested for the project — those bugs simply quietly coexist with benign or helpful microbes, perhaps kept in check by them. 10,000 germ species per human 2012-06-13T17:20:00Z In that spirit of scientific investigation, I had collected a sample of my own gut microbes some weeks before and sent them off to scientists to sequence the countless millions of bacteria within. My life as a guinea pig for science 2013-07-27T23:05:16Z It’s mysophobia-inducing description of microbes reminds us that “They are on you. In you. And you’ve got more than a hundred thousand billion of them.” 20 of the world’s creepiest museums 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z When bacteria and other microbes are included, the number may be higher by tens of millions. New species top 10 2010-05-23T16:38:00Z These changes in bacteria might be mediated by changes in our immune systems themselves and how they relate to the microbes processing our planty food. Was ancient man a vegetarian? 2012-08-27T23:23:00Z However, we observed significant changes in the level of certain key chemicals produced by these gut microbes. Fermented foods and fiber may lower stress levels: study 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z You host 40,000 species of microbes, and when you kiss you transfer some 1 billion bacteria to your beloved. Review | After explaining the universe, Bill Bryson turns his attention to the body 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z If the material doesn't flow freely, it can clog the colonoscope and compromise the microbes' spread through the colon. It's a gut reaction: how other people's bacteria can cure us – extract 2013-03-31T00:05:02Z NIH Swiss mice colonized with Balb/c mouse microbes became more timid and anxious. Gut check: Microbes in our stomachs may be making us miserable 2014-04-28T00:00:00Z Many autoimmune arthritis researchers are less focused on the stealthy bacteria of a leaky gut than on the community of gut microbes as a whole. Motherlode Blog: The Rabbit Hole of the Rare Childhood Diagnosis 2013-02-01T19:34:26Z While many cases of illness are known to be caused by bacterial contaminants such as Campylobacter or the other microbes I've mentioned, there are just as many cases where we don't yet know the source. The sniff test is not reliable for food safety – here’s why 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z Because what you eat determines the amount of cancer-inducing and cancer-preventing microbes inside your body, we believe that the microbes we consume and cultivate are an important component of a healthy diet. How microbes in food can impact your body’s defenses against cancer 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Researchers found that a toxin secreted by a particular strain of the microbe E coli creates distinct mutations in DNA, which contribute to an estimated one in 20 bowel cancers in Britain. Common toxin made in gut can cause bowel cancer, scientists find 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Benjamin Marsland, an expert on the impact of microbes on the immune system from the University hospital of Lausanne in Switzerland, described the new research as “important”. Altering gut microbes of babies could prevent asthma and allergies 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Food and microbes may affect social behavior in people as well. Gut microbes are the community within you that you can’t live without 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z But if the microbes in your gut impact mood and behavior, then the question is, why? Gut check: Microbes in our stomachs may be making us miserable 2014-04-28T00:00:00Z Likewise, Harold McGee writes in "On Food & Cooking," "Because its scant water is dispersed in tiny droplets, properly made butter resists gross contamination by microbes, and keeps well for some days at room temperature." Does butter need to be refrigerated? Well, it depends 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Another possibility is that wheat triticein-forming genes can be expressed in other plants or microbes, from which the molecule can be produced, and its antimicrobial properties further investigated. Unexpected discovery opens bioengineering opportunities for human and plant health 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z The study adds to a growing body of research on the relationship between microbes and odor in mammals, including domestic dogs, wild animals such as foxes, pandas and hyenas, and humans. More than meows: How bacteria help cats communicate 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z Protein cages found in nature within microbes help weather its contents from the harsh intracellular environment -- an observation with many bioengineering applications. Engineering bacteria to biosynthesize intricate protein complexes 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z "They can also withstand heat up to 132 degrees Fahrenheit, which means that you wouldn't have to use cold storage for these microbes." Microbes could help reduce the need for chemical fertilizers 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z By developing a better understanding of microbial responses to environmental conditions, scientists could develop new ways to harness the power of microbes. Forecasting microbiomes for sustainability and health 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z Instead, the resistant starch continues on in your intestines, where it can feed the good microbes in your gut, Bajka said. Pasta and rice may be healthier as leftovers. Here’s why 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z They used DNA sequencing, mass spectrometry and microbial culturing to look at the chemicals in the secretions and the microbes that make them. More than meows: How bacteria help cats communicate 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z "But part of the idea is that the 'dirty' mice are living in an environment -- with more microbes and immune system challenges -- that's a little closer to human environments." A closer look at rebel T cells 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z The microbes are also too delicate to survive the freeze-drying process that would make them easier to transport. Microbes could help reduce the need for chemical fertilizers 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z When it's time to count, they can use various techniques -- including ones that involve taking a picture or using a paper ruler -- to accurately measure samples with anywhere from one to 1 billion microbes. New way to count microbes speeds research, cuts waste, could lead to new antibiotics 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z It is also not an easy task as vitamin B5 is produced by microbes in the gut. Reducing vitamin B5 slows breast cancer growth in mice 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z To trigger symptoms, new healthy mice that host more microbes were added to the cage. Early life exposure to broccoli sprouts protects against colitis in inflammatory bowel disease 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z "We were curious which microbes are found together when we look across the whole system versus which microbes are found within one 'neighborhood.'" Yucatán's underwater caves host diverse microbial communities 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z "We are using these natural food-grade compounds that are known to have benefits on their own, and then they form these little suits of armor that protect the microbes," Furst says. Microbes could help reduce the need for chemical fertilizers 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z The gut microbiome, a community of trillions of microbes living in the human intestines, has an increasing reputation for affecting not only gut health but also the health of organs distant from the gut. Research connecting gut bacteria and oxytocin provides a new mechanism for microbiome-promoted health benefits 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Studies have also suggested a link between higher consumption of ultraprocessed foods and a profound change in the composition of gut microbes. How Do Ultraprocessed Foods Affect Your Health? 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z The researchers wanted to know what types of microbes were living in particular parts of the gut. Early life exposure to broccoli sprouts protects against colitis in inflammatory bowel disease 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z He notes that many microbes that humans have evolved with impact health in a positive way -- a theory known as the Old Friends hypothesis. Infection with common cat-borne parasite associated with frailty in older adults 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z The coatings also kept the microbes alive during the freeze-drying process. Microbes could help reduce the need for chemical fertilizers 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z For most microbes in the intestine, the details of how they can affect other organs remain unclear, but for gut resident bacteria L. reuteri the pieces of the puzzle are beginning to fall into place. Research connecting gut bacteria and oxytocin provides a new mechanism for microbiome-promoted health benefits 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z In the nineteenth century, Louis Pasteur’s germ theory also further shored up medical support for shaving: Facial hair, doctors warned, was a microbe haven. Beards and mustaches have a weirder history than you think 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z The findings indicate that maternal microbes are important to her offspring's development and health. Maternal microbiota can affect fetal development 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Mountains of used plastic bottles get thrown away every day, but microbes could potentially tackle this problem. Plastic-eating bacteria turn waste into useful starting materials for other products 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z They heated the coated microbes to 50 C before placing them in the dish, and compared them to fresh uncoated microbes and freeze-dried uncoated microbes. Microbes could help reduce the need for chemical fertilizers 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z “Aquatic animals can’t escape the microbes in the water,” he says. Why don’t fish have tonsils? They have a good alternative, study suggests 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z Over 4 days, they monitored the kinds and numbers of microbes present in the water, as well as the concentrations of various chemical compounds. How a California wildfire created a buffet for marine microbes 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z In a Finnish study, significant differences in the gene activity of the fetal intestine, brain and placenta were identified, depending on the microbes in the mother's body and the compounds produced by them. Maternal microbiota can affect fetal development 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z At the same time, other researchers engineered microbes to metabolize terephthalic acid into a variety of small molecules, including short acids. Plastic-eating bacteria turn waste into useful starting materials for other products 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z The researchers found that the coated microbes improved the seeds' germination rate by 150 percent, compared to seeds treated with fresh, uncoated microbes. Microbes could help reduce the need for chemical fertilizers 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z When microbes try to invade our body through the nose or mouth, they have to get past the tonsils, lumps of tissue garrisoned by immune cells that help fight off the intruders. Why don’t fish have tonsils? They have a good alternative, study suggests 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z Although microbes of all kinds flourished in the bottles, in-water measurements taken around the same time showed that dinoflagellates—a type of plankton associated with harmful algal blooms—were benefiting disproportionately. How a California wildfire created a buffet for marine microbes 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z Often formed by microbes living in water, methylmercury is the most bioavailable form of mercury that is highly toxic to vertebrates. Amphibians have one more thing to worry about--mercury 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z The microbes work together to support the health of these plants and this ecosystem. Analysis finds diversity on the smallest scales in sulfur-cycling salt marsh microbes 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z She hopes that the low cost of the manufacturing process will help make microbial fertilizers accessible to small-scale farmers who don't have the fermenters needed to grow such microbes. Microbes could help reduce the need for chemical fertilizers 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z Instead of charismatic mammals and birds, they are home to chaos-loving microbes. Old Faithful Is Boiling, Smelly and the Perfect Home for These Living Things 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z For the first time, scientists demonstrate that a wide range of organisms, even microbes, perform the same pattern of movements in order to sense the world. To navigate the world, we all shimmy like these electric fish 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z "Generation time is the lifetime of a tree or microbe, or the time a person spends in a given employment sector," George said. Single model predicts trends in employment, microbiomes, forests 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z For Peredo, one of the most exciting things was how closely related some of the microbes were to each other. Analysis finds diversity on the smallest scales in sulfur-cycling salt marsh microbes 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z When ore interacts with soil, it changes the communities of microbes in the soil. Biological fingerprints in soil show where diamond-containing ore is buried 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z The U.S. has strict regulations overseeing labs that work on 68 dangerous human, animal, and plant microbes and toxins known as “select agents.” U.S. urges DNA synthesis firms to ramp up screening for biosecurity threats 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z Scientists had expected life at the summits to be limited to microbes, but it turns out that isn’t the case. Mouse Mummies Show Life Persists in Mars-like Environment 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z "It is measured in hours for microbes, years for job types, and decades for forests." Single model predicts trends in employment, microbiomes, forests 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z The MBL team working on the project was almost as diverse as the microbes themselves. Analysis finds diversity on the smallest scales in sulfur-cycling salt marsh microbes 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z The researchers tested this in the lab, introducing kimberlite to soil microbes and watching how they changed in number and species. Biological fingerprints in soil show where diamond-containing ore is buried 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z The team found several burrows above 6000 meters, and soil samples taken along paths thought to be traveled by mice revealed the DNA of rodent-specific microbes there, but not off those paths. Mice thrive at 6700 kilometers up—higher than any mammals were thought able to live 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z The researchers also tracked how those probiotics altered the animals' gut microbial mix over 16 weeks, identifying specific microbes and metabolic pathways that may help explain the protective effect. Two probiotics identified as promising hypertension treatments 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z Those compounds—sugars and starches for example—move up the food chain: Plants and photosynthesizing microbes are eaten by other organisms, which in turn are eaten by even bigger organisms. New calculations say there are more living cells than grains of sand or stars in the sky 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z But those marshes are teeming with biodiversity, from the insects and migrating birds in the air all the way down to the microbes that live in the soil. Analysis finds diversity on the smallest scales in sulfur-cycling salt marsh microbes 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z "We took those changed communities of microbes as indicators for the presence of ore materials, or biological fingerprints in the soil of buried mineral deposits," said Phillips. Biological fingerprints in soil show where diamond-containing ore is buried 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z The microbe, as I say, is beautifully rendered to torture and to kill at a very slow rate. The Heroic Black Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z Bone-dry, bitterly cold and bathed in cosmic radiation, the surface of Mars may well be dead, with not so much as a single microbe breaking its state of barrenness. ‘Monster Quake’ Hints at Mysterious Source within Mars 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z All of these die and are consumed and broken down by insects and microbes. New calculations say there are more living cells than grains of sand or stars in the sky 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z That's important, since very few of the planet's microbes have been cultured. Analysis finds diversity on the smallest scales in sulfur-cycling salt marsh microbes 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z Using these 'indicator' microbes and their DNA sequences, the team tested the surface soil at an exploration site in the Northwest Territories where kimberlite had previously been confirmed through drilling. Biological fingerprints in soil show where diamond-containing ore is buried 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z He added, “Understanding what are the microbes, where they come from and what are the interactions with disease is really important.” These Amphibians Have a Taste for Their Mom’s Skin 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z They examined the effect on PBS of microbes gathered from natural seawater off Japan, allowing them to identify several types of marine bacteria that could degrade it. Marine bacteria take a bite at plastic pollution 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z Previous research has implicated fungi in chronic neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, but there is limited understanding of how these common microbes could be involved in the development of these conditions. Fungal infection in the brain produces changes like those seen in Alzheimer's disease 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z So MBL's personnel teamed up with scientists who already had very large DNA sequencing datasets from microbes in Massachusetts and Alabama salt marsh sediments, and the project was launched. Analysis finds diversity on the smallest scales in sulfur-cycling salt marsh microbes 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z They also identified new indicator microbes to add to their set. Biological fingerprints in soil show where diamond-containing ore is buried 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z Fecal microbe transplants from healthy donors can treat patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile infections. Fecal microbe transplants: B. vulgatus genes that correlate with early colonization 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, drug companies have been slow to make new antibiotics capable of beating the microbes. Dangerous ‘Superbugs’ Are on the Rise. What Can Stop Them? 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z A new study published online October 11, 2023 in Nature highlights the vast array of functional diversity of microbes through a novel approach to better understand microbial communities by looking at protein function within them. Doubling down on known protein families 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Previous studies have shown that this volcanic sand can filter impurities and disease-causing microbes from water. Ancient Maya reservoirs offer lessons for today's water crises 2023-10-09T04:00:00Z Researchers have identified buried kimberlite, the rocky home of diamonds, by testing the DNA of microbes in the surface soil. Biological fingerprints in soil show where diamond-containing ore is buried 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z Most failures of fecal microbe transplantation occur in the first four weeks. Fecal microbe transplants: B. vulgatus genes that correlate with early colonization 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z Or perhaps the microbes hitched a ride on the surgical instruments used to treat her wounds. Dangerous ‘Superbugs’ Are on the Rise. What Can Stop Them? 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z Many of the microbes within them cannot be cultivated in lab settings. Doubling down on known protein families 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z However, he and other researchers note vaccines typically refer to products that use a microbe or bits of it to trigger specific, long-lasting immunity to one or several related pathogens. Immunity-enhancing cocktail protects mice against multiple hospital germs 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z The microbes were more precise when it came to identifying the location of buried ore. Biological fingerprints in soil show where diamond-containing ore is buried 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z "The result from our analysis supports the screening of donor B. vulgatus for this gene consortium to enhance colonization following a fecal microbe transplant." Fecal microbe transplants: B. vulgatus genes that correlate with early colonization 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z Most members of this large group of bacteria are harmless; they are normal colonisers of our skin, which can even protect us from harmful microbes. Tracking the bacteria behind life-threatening sepsis in premature babies 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z Since each microbial community has its own unique makeup of microbe players and the functions they perform, artificially replicating a whole community is impossible. Doubling down on known protein families 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Seeking to lower this toll, researchers have now come up with an immune-boosting cocktail that increases the survival of mice exposed to the microbes responsible. Immunity-enhancing cocktail protects mice against multiple hospital germs 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z "You might run out of elements to sample, but you'll never run out of microbes." Biological fingerprints in soil show where diamond-containing ore is buried 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z Fimbrillins are protein polymers, previously identified in Bacteroides, that can form the hair-like structures that protrude from the surfaces of microbes and serve as anchors for microbial adhesion with host cells. Fecal microbe transplants: B. vulgatus genes that correlate with early colonization 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z To reduce reliance on fossil fuels, Conversion researchers are deploying microbes to convert plant biomass into chemicals used in everyday products as an alternative to conventional petroleum-based production. New pipeline makes valuable organic acid from plants -- saving money and emissions 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z Their focus sharpened on deciphering the intricate world of protein functional diversity: the novel protein families and novel functions in as-yet unveiled microbes. Doubling down on known protein families 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Gut microbes found in wild wolves may be the key to alleviating a debilitating gastrointestinal condition common to domestic dogs, according to a study led by researchers at Oregon State University -- Cascades. Gut bacteria found in wild wolves may be key to improving domestic dogs' health 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z But a new technology, envisioned by the scientists and powered by a microbe, could make processing rare earth elements cleaner and scalable -- helping provide a steady U.S. supply for clean energy infrastructure and defense applications. Metal-loving microbes could replace chemical processing of rare earths 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z "Since none of the Human Microbiome Project pairs had the full 19 genes, we do not know whether any of the pairs would have an early colonizing phenotype in fecal microbe transplants," Morrow said. Fecal microbe transplants: B. vulgatus genes that correlate with early colonization 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z In turn, the microbes, which are mostly concentrated in your gut, get to live in a relatively stable, warm environment with a steady supply of food. Your microbes live on after you die. A microbiologist explains how 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z At the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Olivier Lemaire, Mélissa Belhamri and Tristan Wagner dissected the microbe to find its CO2-capturing enzyme and measure how fast and efficiently it can transform CO2. Capturing CO2 with electricity: A microbial enzyme inspires electrochemistry 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z The team's findings indicate that if microbes exist on other planetary bodies, they might produce similar biomolecules to retain liquid water in channels in the clathrate that could sustain life. Novel bacterial proteins from seafloor shine light on climate and astrobiology 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z The microbe selectively adsorbs -- or clings -- to these rare earth elements, making it an ideal candidate to carry out an eco-friendly purification procedure. Metal-loving microbes could replace chemical processing of rare earths 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z "The capacity to rapidly restore the B. vulgatus community in these patients would be important to reduce the risk of infection by pathogens or antibiotic-resistant microbe pathogens that could impact overall health," Morrow said. Fecal microbe transplants: B. vulgatus genes that correlate with early colonization 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z As an environmental microbiologist who studies the necrobiome – the microbes that live in, on and around a decomposing body – I've been curious about our postmortem microbial legacy. Your microbes live on after you die. A microbiologist explains how 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z Yet, for billions of years, some microbes have actively captured CO2 using highly efficient enzymes. Capturing CO2 with electricity: A microbial enzyme inspires electrochemistry 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z How microbes may prevent allergy has been a topic of great interest in recent times. Allergy study on 'wild' mice challenges the hygiene hypothesis 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z The microbiome, or the collection of microbes living on and in the human body, are known to play a role in human health and the skin is no different. Skin behind the ears and between the toes can host a collection of unhealthy microbes 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z Some researchers are exploring storing hydrogen in underground caverns carved out of salt formations—but that geology is rare, and subterranean microbes might eat up the hydrogen. Chemical cages could store hydrogen, expand use of clean-burning fuel 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z You might assume that your microbes die with you – once your body breaks down and your microbes are flushed into the environment, they won't survive out in the real world. Your microbes live on after you die. A microbiologist explains how 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z Researchers last year reported the discovery of DNA from animals, plants and microbes dating to about 2 million years ago from sediment at Greenland's remote northernmost point. DNA remnants found in fossil of 6 million year old turtle 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Warming could lead to booms in mosquito or tick populations, some of which can spread novel microbes to birds. Changing bird migrations threaten to bring new infectious diseases to humans 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z The students then learned how to extract and sequence the DNA in the skin samples in order to compare the microbes living in the hotspots to those in the control regions. Skin behind the ears and between the toes can host a collection of unhealthy microbes 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z “When you have a compost pile, you become a microbe farmer. You’re managing microbes,” says Rhonda Sherman, a composting expert at North Carolina State University. How to compost—and why it’s good for the environment 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z Your microbes accompany you from cradle to grave. Your microbes live on after you die. A microbiologist explains how 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z As sweat, oils and other secretions make it to the surface of your skin, microbes break down and transform these compounds, changing and adding to the odors that make up your scent. Your Body Odor Could Be Used to Track Your Movements or Health 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z Standing in the way of these plans are not just the dauntingly complex interactions of birds, microbes, and climate, but also mundane challenges. Changing bird migrations threaten to bring new infectious diseases to humans 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z If the microbiome tips in favor of detrimental microbes, skin diseases like eczema or acne can be the result, he says. Skin behind the ears and between the toes can host a collection of unhealthy microbes 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z “And what do microbes need? They need the same things we do. Which is air, water, food, shelter.” How to compost—and why it’s good for the environment 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z From an evolutionary standpoint, it makes sense that your microbes would have evolved ways to adapt to a dying body. Your microbes live on after you die. A microbiologist explains how 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z These skin cells act as boats or rafts carrying glandular secretions and your resident microbes – a combination of ingredients that emit your scent – and depositing them in your surroundings. Your Body Odor Could Be Used to Track Your Movements or Health 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z When bird droppings contaminate food or water supplies, humans can be at risk from either the resistant bacteria or the AMR genes, which can spread to other microbes. Changing bird migrations threaten to bring new infectious diseases to humans 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z The students proved the grandmother hypothesis and their results suggested that cleaning habits can change the microbes living on your skin and consequently its health status, Crandall says. Skin behind the ears and between the toes can host a collection of unhealthy microbes 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z Shredding the container into small pieces, no bigger than two inches, will give microbes a better chance at breaking it down. How to compost—and why it’s good for the environment 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z Gut bacteria, especially a class of microbes called Clostridia, spread through your organs and digest you from the inside out in a process called putrefaction. Your microbes live on after you die. A microbiologist explains how 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z More frequent droughts and floods, a consequence of warming, could expose more people to deadly waterborne microbes such as the cholera-causing bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Malaria cases could ebb in an even hotter world. But other diseases will get worse 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z Floods could supercharge the spread of the genes by dispersing sewage or manure, and droughts could do the same by causing birds and other animals to congregate and share microbes at water sources. Changing bird migrations threaten to bring new infectious diseases to humans 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z Crandall says the study of how the collection of microbes on the skin leads to health or disease is in the early stages. Skin behind the ears and between the toes can host a collection of unhealthy microbes 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z That oxygen helps tiny microbes decompose food waste through a process called aerobic digestion. How to compost—and why it’s good for the environment 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z From an evolutionary standpoint, it makes sense that your microbes would have evolved ways to adapt to a dying body. Your microbes live on after you die. A microbiologist explains how 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z By feeding on dead plant matter, they release nutrients much faster than soil microbes would by themselves. If earthworms were a country, they’d be the world’s fourth largest producer of grain 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z “When you have a drought, people keep their own rain barrels, so you would have more breeding sites for mosquitoes,” which could spread microbes to and from birds, Sikkema says. Changing bird migrations threaten to bring new infectious diseases to humans 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z The disruption brought by wildfires reaches everything that lives in or near a burning field or forest -- including microbes. By air, rain and land: How microbes return after a wildfire 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z In landfills, deep piles of trash prevent oxygen from reaching decomposing food, and it’s instead broken down by microbes that can survive without air. How to compost—and why it’s good for the environment 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z If you're buried in the ground, your microbes are flushed into the soil along with a soup of decomposition fluids as your body breaks down. Your microbes live on after you die. A microbiologist explains how 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z Fonte hopes the study will encourage policymakers and land managers to look more carefully at the role of soil invertebrates and microbes. If earthworms were a country, they’d be the world’s fourth largest producer of grain 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z "We found TXN mainly works by reducing the abundance of gut microbes that promote inflammation in the adipose tissue's macrophage cells, and improving glucose metabolism," Morgun said. Compound derived from hops reduces abundance of gut microbe associated with metabolic syndrome 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z The intense heat produced during a wildfire alters the chemical composition of the leaf litter, where microbes reside, and can shift the microbial communities in an ecosystem. By air, rain and land: How microbes return after a wildfire 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z The anaerobic digestion practiced by those microbes produces methane. How to compost—and why it’s good for the environment 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z The outcome of mixing – which community dominates and which microbes are active – depends on several factors, such as how much environmental change the microbes experience and who was there first. Your microbes live on after you die. A microbiologist explains how 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z It may even contain organic molecules similar to those necessary for the emergence of microbes. Capsule with NASA's first asteroid sample heads for Utah touchdown 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z They suggest beginning with "fertility islands" -- small pockets of re-greened habitat from which the plants and microbes can spread to form a carpet of vegetation. We could sequester CO2 by 're-greening' arid lands, plant scientists say 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z To study the movement of microbes, they used 4 configurations of dispersal bags. By air, rain and land: How microbes return after a wildfire 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z The microbes also give off heat, and in a large, well-managed pile, that heat can reach over 130 degrees Fahrenheit, enough to kill pathogens. How to compost—and why it’s good for the environment 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z Your microbes are adapted to the stable, warm environment inside your body where they receive a steady supply of food. Your microbes live on after you die. A microbiologist explains how 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z Lignin is an ideal eco-friendly precursor to feed biomanufacturing microbes because it is abundant in the hundreds of millions of tons of plant waste that is generated each year from post-harvest crops and landscape clearing. Fast-track strain engineering for speedy biomanufacturing 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Some soil microbes use oxalates as their sole carbon source, and in doing so, they excrete carbonate molecules into the soil. We could sequester CO2 by 're-greening' arid lands, plant scientists say 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z For the first, they used burned leaf litter to fill small porous pouches that allowed microbes to pass in and out. By air, rain and land: How microbes return after a wildfire 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z An international team of scientists led by microbiologist Alexander Loy from the University of Vienna has discovered a new intestinal microbe that feeds exclusively on taurine and produces the foul-smelling gas hydrogen sulfide. That smell: New gut microbe produces smelly toxic gas but protects against pathogens 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z It's easy to assume that your microbes will die off once they are outside your body. Your microbes live on after you die. A microbiologist explains how 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z Using engineered microbes as microscopic factories has given the world steady sources of life-saving drugs, revolutionized the food industry, and allowed us to make sustainable versions of valuable chemicals previously made from petroleum. Fast-track strain engineering for speedy biomanufacturing 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Placozoans are tiny animals, around the size of a large grain of sand, which graze on algae and microbes living on the surface of rocks and other substrates found in shallow, warm seas. Tiny sea creatures reveal the ancient origins of neurons 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z The third configuration was a porous bag filled with glass slides, to collect microbes as they moved through, and the fourth, another control group, included closed bags with glass slides. By air, rain and land: How microbes return after a wildfire 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z One of the most important functions of the symbiotic microbes in the gut is to defend against pathogens. That smell: New gut microbe produces smelly toxic gas but protects against pathogens 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z This raised the question of whether these microbes are still alive and active or if they are merely in a dormant state waiting for the next host. Your microbes live on after you die. A microbiologist explains how 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z Berkeley Lab scientists want to help the burgeoning industry reach new heights by accelerating and streamlining the process of engineering microbes to produce important compounds with commercial-ready efficiency. Fast-track strain engineering for speedy biomanufacturing 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z "Parental care has marked impacts on immunity and microbiome, such as the transfer of core microbes essential for offspring survival as observed in earwigs, burying beetles, African clawed frogs and mice," the authors write. The key to a tiny bee's health is having a good mom, study finds 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z Overall, dispersal from the air contributed most significantly to the microbes entering the soil surface -- 34% of the bacteria and 42% of the fungi. By air, rain and land: How microbes return after a wildfire 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z Hydrogen sulfide-producing microbes in the gut may help "choke out" oxygen-dependent pathogens such as Klebsiella, making it harder for them to colonize. That smell: New gut microbe produces smelly toxic gas but protects against pathogens 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z Our newest study suggests that your microbes are not only living in the soil but also cooperating with native soil microbes to help decompose your body. Your microbes live on after you die. A microbiologist explains how 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z Scientists have woken up tiny life forms called microbes that are over 100 million years old. Worms Frozen for 46,000 Years Are Alive 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z For hundreds of millions of years, pancake-shaped animals the size of a needle tip have been roving the seas with an appetite for tasty microbes and algae. You May Have This Blobby Animal to Thank for Your Nervous System 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z The study of how microbes move through the environment is an emerging area of research, Barbour said, but one that's intimately connected to larger issues of how big disturbances change the environment. By air, rain and land: How microbes return after a wildfire 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z "By isolating the first taurine degrader in the mouse gut, we're one step closer to understanding how these gut microbes mediate animal and human health" explains Huimin Ye, lead author of the study. That smell: New gut microbe produces smelly toxic gas but protects against pathogens 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z In the lab, we showed that mixing soil and decomposition fluids filled with host-associated microbes increased decomposition rates beyond that of the soil communities alone. Your microbes live on after you die. A microbiologist explains how 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z The microbes were found in samples pulled from deep under the sea floor beneath miles of ocean. Worms Frozen for 46,000 Years Are Alive 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z And if destination worlds have undetected life, then harmful extraterrestrial microbes could also return with astronauts or equipment—a planetary-protection risk called backward contamination. Why We’ll Never Live in Space 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z When creatures—including people—die, microbes decompose them, releasing carbon, nitrogen and phosphates that create new life. Carbon in the Oceans Is Altering the Micro-Fabric of Life 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z |
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